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Major Announcement: Progress Update
🕑 Added 2018-05-25 12:00:01 +0000 UTC Hey there buddies! We're here to bring you another batch of exciting updates about the development of Camp Buddy! We ask everyone to please take the time to read through this post as it contains a lot of information about the inquiries most of you may have!---------------------------------------------------------
STORY / SCRIPTWRITING
Still at our highest priority, the team has been focused more than ever on the storywriting process since it is the basic foundation of the game, and the entire development heavily relies on its completion. With our additional writer, Wade, helping with the process, we can manage more tasks at once!
Here's the current status of the scriptwriting process:
- Hiro's route: 5 months
- Yoichi's route: 2 months
- Hunter's route (Remaster) : 2 months
Natsumi's story route has an expected completion of 1 - 1.5 month. We expect the storywriting process to be finished within July 2018, or hopefully earlier.
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PROGRAMMING
Our programmer, Jey, has had a continuous momentum coding/programming the already-finished routes the past two months!
Here's the current status of the programming process:
- Hiro's route: COMPLETED (55,000 coded lines)
- Yoichi's route: Will be completed by the end of May 2018 (40,000 coded lines so far)
- Hunter's route: Set to begin by June 2018
We plan to keep the programming process continuously-running while the story is being written for the other routes!
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ART
Mikkoukun and Zael have also begun the remaining art workload, working alongside the story and other aspects of the project, and with this new schedule, a handful of new drafts have been produced:
CG Scenes / Sex Scenes
As mentioned from the previous major update, we have fully-drafted all CGs required for Hiro and Yoichi's route! We are currently working on Hunter's CGs.
Here's another preview of an in-game CG:
We're sorry we can't spoil too much >A<"
Background Art
We have made additional backgrounds to better portray certain scenes, and add more locations in the camp to make the story more flexible and exciting!
We did a little remastering of the entrance arch too~!
Sprite Art
We have also managed to complete some costume party sprites and the route-exclusive supporting characters for each of the main cast:
Hina Akiba, Mr. and Mrs. Springfield, Yuki, and Naoto Hamasaki.
We also have New Cameo Characters (final addition to the cameos) which we will introduce soon for next month's voting poll! Please stay tuned for them~!
Camp Buddy now has a total cast of:
- 14 Main Characters
- 5 Supporting Characters
- 4 Cameos
- ??? Chibi Cameos
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MUSIC, VOICE and VIDEO
Music
For the in-game music, our composer MYM is currrently remastering all of the new BGMs for better quality~!
Meanwhile, the full (extended) version of the main theme: 'Greatest Memories' by Mimi Neko and TechniKen is in the final review stages!
Voice Acting
We have also recently hired additional voice actors for the new supporting characters! Here is an updated list of our voice actors:
- Keitaro / Yoshinori - Kiba Walker
- Hiro / Yoichi - Shota-Sensei
- Hunter / Seto - Kolton Nation
- Natsumi - Dempster
- Taiga - Dom Dinh
- Goro - Ian Pabito
- Aiden - Sean Chiplock
- Yuri / Lee - Kawtsuki
- Eduard - Steve Warky Nunez
- Felix - Avery
- Naoto - LordAzria
As you all may have noticed, there are still uncast roles for the other supporting characters and the cameos. We will make an official recruitment thread for these voice acting positions as soon as we complete all the character's story workloads!
Video
Howl has been working with the opening video ever since the last major updates, and we're glad to announce that it's now in the final polishing stages! We are planning to publish the full opening video when the game is in the promotion phase! Thank you for your understanding and patience~!
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FANWORK FEATURE
For this month's fanwork feature, we've decided to showcase Camp Buddy appearing in different media~! Check them out:
- CAMP BUDDY ANIMATED PARODY (w/ English Subs) by ClaudioElRandom
- CAMP BUDDY MOD by AmaiBurgeers123
- Camp Buddy Demo : Let's Play by Kelrokk
- Camp Buddy Demo : Let's Play by TheCaliMack
- Camp Buddy Demo : Let's Play by Commander-O
Make sure to check out other playthroughs of Camp Buddy and don't forget to follow their channels too!
It's amazing how much love and support Camp Buddy has been receiving, despite being a game that it is still in development. It is because of all the patrons' support and fans that we are full of motivation and always determined to reach the goal and release the game~!
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ABOUT THE TEAM
BLits is now a team of five (5) people so far, who work 10-12 hours a day and 5-6 days a week to make sure the game development always moves forward, and below is the distribution of the workload:
Mikkoukun + Zael (Zamius)
- Storywriting (Plot / Dialogues)
- Scriptwriting for Programmer (Used for coding)
- Art (CGs, Sprites, Backgrounds)
- Interface Design
Jey
- Coding / Programming and Beta Testing
- Storywriting (Plot / Dialogues)
- Promotion / Social Media
Wade
- Storywriting (Plot / Dialogues)
- Proofreading
PooDay
- Technical Work
- Sprite and Voice Cue Placement
- Merchandise / Physical Items Production
Kenta
- Website Management
Outsource (Commissioned Contributors)
- Voice Acting
- Music
- Sound Effects
- Opening Animation
- Accounting
- Supervision
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CLOSING MESSAGE
Thank you very much for reading through this announcement, and we hope that we answered many of your questions!
WHEN IS THE NEXT UPDATE?
We will be scheduling a another major update once we have completed another character route! We expect it to be sometime around the end of July 2018!
WHEN IS THE GAME GOING TO BE RELEASED?
As months pass and we see the maximum pace our development team is capable of, we have arrived with a new estimate.
We are targetting to release Camp Buddy within AUGUST 2018!
Knowing we can no longer afford to go beyond said period, we will, above all, respect everyone's patience regarding this project and push above and beyond our abilities to make sure Camp Buddy is delivered on time. We here at BLits, appreciate everyone's faith and understanding in us to make this possible!
AND AS ALWAYS
We would like to give our biggest and most heartfelt thank you to our patrons and supporters! It is only through your overwhelming love and extended patience that the Camp can reach its full potential as an amazing experience for everyone. You all have our promise that we are working hard every day to make sure that Camp Buddy is released at the soonest possible date and in the best quality we can provide.
Lots of love <3,
-BLits Team
Comments
Jack
It says in this update that it will be released in August.
Ninja x Hunter
Sorry, this is probably a dumb question, but did I miss an announcement about an updated expected release date of the full game? Haven’t been checking patreon in a while
OtakuboyZay
Wow sounds like a lot of progress is being made good luck you guys hope you can reach your release date in time keep up the great work and keep doing what you guys do best!
I want an Aiden Route XD
Liked the Game . I hope you make it full free but put soo Many premium features so that atleast you can earn
Mikkoukun
With regards to animation and Taiga route, We will announce a separate announcement for the status of it~ Please wait for it on our next major update! ^^
Mikkoukun
Thank you so much too, Andrew, for all your input and support! <3
Mikkoukun
Thank you so much for the support as well!
How i can down game when it release???
Jack
Only 2 months
So you guys spend four months on Hunter route?
Arty
Thanks for the update! Really looking forward to playing the full game! I hope you guys consider an Aihara route in the future! :D
Jack
They are not rushing it, the shorter time frame is a result of them having an additional writer, and after having finished 3 routes, they have a better understanding of how to write the stories, which means they will have better pacing. Plus some scenes I'm sure carry over from route to route, so they don't have to write those scenes from scratch.
Won’t rushing writing Natsumi story kind of lower the quality of his route?
JayTeam
If only Jirou and Connor have a voice dialogue
Is there any news about the CG animations? Last I read there were some animators in probation. Is that still going on? Also, what about Taiga’s route? Will there be enough time to write, code, and test it before the release date in August? Is he going to have a full route or will it be like a mini route? By the way, I love the new beach background. It is so pretty. :D
I think the game will be the best way to end the school year
Jack
Because they didn't feel that it was up to the same quality as Hiro and Yoichi's routes.
Jack
they specifically went back and updated Hunter's route because it wasn't up to the level of Hiro and Yoichi's route, so I don't think you have to worry about them dropping the quality of Taiga and Natsumies routes, they wouldn't waste all that time fixing one route, just to rush through the next two, for a sub par story. The reason it's not going to take as long, is because they now have more people working on the stories, and have found a good rhythm to work with, which will greatly increase their pace.
It's amazing seeing this get so close to completion!
Why did Hunter route have to be remastered?
earthdramon
It good to see that you have target to release game in August, but I have something to worry, In your last major update in March 3, you tell us that you have already complete Hiro, Hunter, Yoichi route, and look at this update. There are nothing different, ok you tell us you remaster Hunter route. It mean Hunter route is take your time very much (2.5 + 2 = 4.5 month).Now, you must hurry to writing Natsumi and Taiga's story. You tell us "Natsumi's story route has an expected completion of 1 - 1.5 month" , I believe you can do it but I afraid about quality. Natsume is my favorite character, he will be my first play, so I worry about him. I will wait and see his story when game release. I hope his part will came out well. See you in your next update in July. I wish everything will be done and you can fix any problem.
Dillman
Great update. You guys have been working hard for so long, I bet it will feel great to get the game released in August. We are all looking forward to seeing the final product. It will be amazing. Thank you!
Purrtato
I was waiting for this yay!!! X3
Mikkoukun
Haha, it is the same voice actor, he just decided to put up a different pseudonym ^^
Ranulf
So nice to see an update about the games progress it seems like all the pieces come together now ^^ I love that cheerful Yoichi teaser he looks adorable in it :p I noticed that Hiros and Yoichis voice actor seemed to have switched which is a bit sad because I really liked Yoichis voice :/ Now I have to pray that i like his new one just as much >.< It's nice to finally have a release date again but I seriously question if that's possible considering what's left to code write and draw. i sure as hell would love a release in august that would be perfect but I really don't expect it right now xD Keep up the good work you and your team will always have my support! ^^
I can't wait to see Yoichi Dog :3
OMGI m can’t wait any more
Dé-Jà-Vu
Awesome, keep it up!! Excited to see it come out~~
Ty for hard work mikoukun
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